Ohio Big Boy worker charged with tainting coffee

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- An employee at an Ohio Big Boy restaurant is charged with pouring animal medication into customer coffee with the intent to poison.

The Blade newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/sRU1CO ) 36-year-old Edwin Ledgard told Toledo police that he had a delusion to kill customers.

A police report says the Toledo man went to the Frisch's Big Boy on his day off on Friday and poured into a pot of coffee a drug called Dextran, which is used to treat anemia in baby pigs. Police say another worker at the restaurant saw what Ledgard was doing.

Ledgard was jailed on a charge of contaminating a substance for human consumption. A judge set his bond at $100,000 on Monday. A message seeking comment was left with his public defender.